Former governor who started Ted Stevens’ Senate career: ‘His time is over.’
By on Aug 12th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Former governor who started Ted Stevens’ Senate career: ‘His time is over.’
Earlier this month, Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) was indicted on charges that he concealed over $250,000 in gifts and home renovations he received from oil company Veco. Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (R) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have resisted calling on him to step down. Bloomberg reports, however, that former Alaska governor Walter Hickel is advising Stevens to step down. “He has served Alaska for 40 years, but his time is over,” said Hickel, who started Stevens’s Senate career by appointing him to a vacancy in 1968. (HT: The Crypt)
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Of course, Obamagr8’s comment has nothing to do w/ the fact that Stevens’ time does appear to be over… NEXT!!!!!!!
August 12th, 2008 at 10:17 pmStevens is 84! Of course his “time is over.”
August 12th, 2008 at 10:43 pmObama8,
So Teddy Boy built your Bridge to Nowhere, is that you reason to continue to support a felon?
August 12th, 2008 at 11:20 pmWally Hickel was quite the celebrity during the Nixon days. Fairly liberal for a Gooper, he was an environmentalist and gadfly that got bounced out of Nixons cabinet. By today’s standards he wouldn’t be allowed in the GOP. Free thinker and socially left of center.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:24 amNO!
August 13th, 2008 at 12:29 amOil…again underlying the demise of someone. Other times, it’s the demise of something. The environment, peace. It strikes me that the world is dependent on something which comes from death…fossil fuels. Should it surprise any of us that it leads to death of one sort or another?
August 13th, 2008 at 12:46 amObama8,
And what does that link about the bridge do to prove it wasn’t a boondoggle?
And the poll just shows that AK is starting to get in touch with the real world.
Must make you angry, huh? So what is your protection of Teddy about? I know him and was around him for 15 years and he is TOTALLY owned by Big Oil, so what has he done to buy your loyalty?
August 13th, 2008 at 1:47 am#1 obamagr8:
We’ll try this again:
Wally Hickel is going to be 89 on Monday and is no longer as vigorous as he once was.
Let’s try this again:
Even if Wally Hickel is “no longer as vigorous as he once was”, it seems he’s still got a lot of licks more sense than McSame … and you. So what’s your excuse?
Cheers,
August 13th, 2008 at 8:29 am#12 obamagr8 emitted this:
Current thinking is that oil comes from dead plants that have been compressed for hundreds of thousands of years . I’m upset just thinking about it.
Typo there. Should be “Current thinking amongst Rethuglican eedjits and other clueless berks and scientific ignorami is that oil comes from dead plants that have been compressed for hundreds of thousands of years…”
Cheers,
August 13th, 2008 at 8:33 amThe puppet masters are calling in the puppets for not performing.
August 13th, 2008 at 8:45 am